1.A I don't have to pay an arm and a leg for netflix dvds comes with my subscription. I pay amazon 60 dollars a year for "free" shipping. What I am getting at is there are other avenues/models to go down than kicking the shipping cost direct to the consumer i.e. you and me.

Netflix Buys a DVD for $8, charges someone 15/month, and you can get at most 5 dvds during that time, and they pay about 50 cents each way for mailing. So you are paying at least 1/4 of the DVD. They rent them out between 10 and 20 times, making about 400%, and then send the DVDs used for $5. For a final profit of about 450% per Dvd. There is a plus or minus for Dvds that get damaged, or when someone gets a dvd they don't really care about and has it for a month before watching it, giving netflix a 200% profit on that one viewer.

400% profit with a $4 shipping loss for netflix vs 45%-120% profit per item and anywhere from $4 to $12 shipping loss per product for paizo, its not a valid comparison.

your other comparison:

Amanzon Prime has lost Millions of dollars with amazon prime every quarter. According to one article they lost over 170 million dollars due to amazon prime during the last christmas season, and 125 million this quarter. Paizo doesn't have the other revenue streams to suck up a loss like that. The most recent estimate I've seen is that Amanzon looses $11 per amazon prime membership they sell annually. Amanzon currently makes all of its money by its third party selling, and its app store... and amazon's 3rd party selling shipping is more expensive than paizo's.

If you look through pretty much *any* thread about minis sets, you'll find people asking for more PC-types and few or no monsters, and you'll find people asking for more monsters and few or no PCs.

Yup - BPorter, to prove Vic's point, I'm your opposite. As someone who is a collector, I have almost every D&D mini from the beginning through 4th edition.. and then pathfinder battles. That means I have about 1070 unique sculpts of D&D miniatures plus every pathfinder battles miniature to date. If I never get another generic human or elf again it will be too soon. Once you count doubles, I have over 2,000 human or elf miniatures (and that's not counting reaper bones) . Why would I need another one?

Every time I see a human previewed I sigh and think "well there's another spot that could have been used by a monster that has never gotten a miniature, but instead another (insert class) with (insert weapon or spell effect)" Trying to find 'something suitable' for things like tatzlewurms or reefclaws was painful until they came out in miniature form. I mean, how do you find something to put the right mindset into your players when they see a basidirond?

If your party is facing a fighter with an ax or a fighter with a sword..... 90% of the time it will last less then 3 rounds, so as long at it looks martial no one cares.

2 Notes
1) as the rambler states, the green ones are recycled material

2)And at least a few years ago, Vic had said that all of the packing peanuts that Paizo used were recycled from what they received from distributors. So "other options" might raise the shipping and handling prices

Most liky you were only charged once the other two are most likly authorizations. The issue was most likly that your billing address on the card not exactly like the billing address you put into the system.....

You can make your own. Click on my name and download the image extractor there. Load the PDFs of the free players guide, burnt offerings, or runelords anniversary edition. In the extractor pick the page number of the map. Hit extract

Note the community use policy does not allow you to share thier art even when modified in this way

In my game last week, a PC made the perception check for the stork/quasit, pointed it out to the other PCs, one of whom immediately said "look! Food!" and shot his bow at it initiating combat.

Long story short:

the quasit got color sprayed, and 3 longbow crits on it before he could get out of range, and it died (after encounter 1 but before any of the other scripted encounters, thus making the later encounters much different)

Should they have gotten the +4 for the town track for violence? They were in the festival at the time, so lots of people would have seen the weapon carrying character say 'look food' and shoot an arrow at a bird for no 'reason'. But this was the festival, it could have been let loose from a petting zoo, or be tied to a midwife or psycic's tent, or be a pet of one of the hundreds of farmers in the tent city. I decided at the time that this counted as a violent act, even though they killed it and could present its true form as evidence (which they didn't do).

This is 2015. I think venues without wifi or a reliable cell signal represent a corner case, at best. And even if we're going to include those in the discussion, the rule could still be that you need to present the source material only in the event that you don't have access to the pfsrd.

Conventions: the 6 conventions we support, only 1 has free wifi, the others have no or spotty cell reception, and wifi costs $15 per day.

Game stores: We play PFS at 5 game stores in the state. 2 of them have free wifi. The other 4 games stores in the state who were not interested PFS only 1 had wifi. So about 30% of game stores I have visited in this state (CT) have it available to customers. Of course this is also one of the 3 states with the highest price per square foot in retail space cost, and the state in the process of raising the minimum wage to the highest in the country, so small businesses are feeling the financial stress. Many of the game stores are in basements of buildings, and have no cell reception. I'd say 50% you can't get wifi or 3G (or higher) cell service.

So not so much a corner case as you might think. If you are a first time player at one of these stores or conventions, and you think as you seem to that they'll have free wifi, so you don't bring resources with you.... that means at least one game day or day of the convention you will be stuck running games with pregenerated characters. It also punishes those without smart phones and/or tablets. Its better to treat all players the same at all locations, meaning everyone has to bring a source.

Erick Wilson wrote:

I still think Walter's idea about a more comprehensive and vigilantly updated official Paizo SRD that PFS players could access via a subscription fee is probably the best one though.

But they don't do subscriptions that don't include physical product, and what you are asking for is already handled by the subscription PDFs. The subscription you are talking about would lower the number of subscribers to the book lines, which would mean they would have to print less books, which raises the cost of printing each book, which increases the cost of the books to the consumer, which would lower the number of subscribers to the book lines, which would mean they would have to print less books, which raises the cost of printing each book, which increases the cost of the books to the consumer, which would lower the number of subscribers to the book lines, which would mean they would have to print less books, which raises the cost of printing each book, which increases the cost of the books to the consumer...... until Paizo is no more. The PRD is all of the RPG line books for free, because that's as much as they can do without having their business model thrown on its head. (Note: they have made a few exceptions such as the technology guide)

Also I'm not sure what you mean by "vigilantly updated" the PRD is updated the same day that errata comes out. When a new book comes out, it takes some time to get it added, but that also helps with books sales, if you want to start playing with the newest and greatest, you by the book or PDF on street date.

A swarm is always composed of 4 squares. These need not be in a 2 by 2 square formation, the swarm is shapeable and can assume a new shape with each move. The only restriction is that its squares remain contiguous. So basically, at any one time the swarm can form any one "Tetris-shape".

Where's the rule for this? The closest thing I recall is that they can fit through any space that their component creatures can fit through. Aside from that, I thought they were always 2x2 square swarms. Any variations in shape would come from multiple contiguous 2x2 swarms.

I was going to say something similar to Koboldhammer, but he beat me to it... one of the few things from my 'beginning using bunson burners' class at the beginning of high school Chemistry that I remember

It was originally going to be a Feb release, when it was pushed back, they most likely didn't update the release date in the system, so it just showed the current stock of 0 and sold out when the original release date was reached.

Indeed - we'll start with Boar and Rabbit then. Also, I'll start the post on Saturday with a link to a new thread the same way as Death's Heretic. Here we go...

I know that you want to keep the voting organic for what we read next, but I think that we need to make another thread for deciding order - that way, if someone were going to star with the next book, they could order it when it is announced, and have it in before the first part of the discussion starts, so they won't be playing catch up the entire time.

If you're asking about the players, make their builds tough, but flavourful. Remember, most fights last less than 8 rounds. Depending on the level, you'll probably have room to use a flavourful feat or two.

Another thing. If you haven't built the sisters.... Maybe add some stuff from the occult adventures playtest? Looks like you're using mostly core, so some of these things might 'break' their ideas of what is possible... This could make them memorable encounters....

B.T.W., even notice how disorganized and ineffective the Technic League is at controlling technology - even though it somehow kept super-science from spreading into the neighboring nations.

My reading of the Technic League is that it doesn't really care about the spread of technology as much as it claims, because most Androffan technology is useless or redundant to magic, much of the good stuff will break before anyone figures it out, and the rest is literal toxic waste.

The League does care about the spread of its studies of technology, and while it's internally dysfunctional the League somehow gets awfully competent in a hurry toward defectors or when so much as a League book winds up in a third party's hands.

But isn't that the opposite of why the Technic league is hunting the main character in City of the Fallen Sky. they aren't hunting him for defecting, and he's not teaching others their secrets at the time, but instead they hunt him because he has 3 baubles from the sky mount. Its been a while since I read, that book, so I MAY be wrong....

I have my religious characters use their god's title when addressing members who are not a part of their faith, and they in turn use the titles as well if they know them. I imagine it to be a little bit like the god stating "Only my friends get to call me Shelyn."

Another way of thinking of it is how medieval subjects would refer to their lord by title, rather than by name, but the lord's closest friends and servants (and they could get quite close) would be able to refer to them by name comfortably.

I do something similar. Other than a few of the major gods, most of my (PFS) players don't know the title right away. So I've found that both written NPC and myself will refer to both name and title the first time, and then use title for the rest of the conversation.

The Song of the Spheres
The Great Dreamer
Starsong
The Tender of Dreams
Lady Luck
Resplendent Goddess of Fortune
Goddess of the North Star
Queen of the North Star
Mother Moon

Would a PC know all of these? A cleric of Desna? yes. Other Clerics? Most likely with an knowledge check. Lay people? No way. Therefore whichever title a NPR is going to use should be prefaced the first time used; "Desna, Lady Luck"

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Ed kingmaker yet.... The random encounter tables for the first level adventure have a chimera and a few various Giants in it, and it gives advice on how to deal with this.... Since the pcs could explore hexes out of order and go to the level 20 hexes before finishing the level 1 ones

Yoha's Graveyard seems to be the only place that the Clearing Moon is mentioned. We have the list of the names of all of the full moons in Blood of the Moon and the Clearing Moon isn't one of them. Has anyone seen errata for this? Tbug (talk) 00:02, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

Note the reference list has the reference for this page to be isles of the shackles p37

This module was put in print over 4h years ago, the same day the Core rule book was available. The fact that it took over 3 years for the print run to sell out points to there not being enough a demand for a second print run. So I doubt they will print a second run...also I don't think a module has ever had a second print run...

If you're asking about Organized play, the Guide to organized play has all of the rules. This changes 1-2 times a year, so is only availible in PDF form.

If you are asking about information about Golarion in general, I'd suggest looking up whichever topic you are interested in on the Pathfinder Wiki and look to the reference section, that will give you the books used to build that particular page.

Wow, that's a super list! I had no idea PFS used the maps to that extent. In that light I'm sort of surprised if the only map that's used in modules/APs is the one I mentioned above. Surely there are more?

I think Town Square is used in Rise of the Runelords Anniversary edition. But I'm at a Con printing chronicle sheets right now, so can't download my PDF to check it

I think he's saying that if you take the 'good' route, you get quick XP but little loot, and can run quests for the rest of the slot. If you do the 'murderhobo' route you get full loot, but it takes the whole time, and Paladins may have an issue with it.

Yeah, the server was having problems, once we pointed it to the IP host, thy restarted the server and it came back within 5 minutes.

Giorgo, for your first question, my personal rule of thumb for the regular pathfinder wiki is anything that I can have 3 sentences on is worthy of a page.

Feel free to ask wiki questions on the pathfinderwiki.com forums here we may not all play PFO, but for the wiki stuff we've been working with the same wiki engine for up to 5 years, so we may be able to answer questions